Death on the Nevskii Prospekt

This time has come, a great mass is moving towards all of us, a mighty healthy storm is rising, it’s coming, it’s already near, and soon it will blow sloth, indifference, contempt for work, this festering boredom right out of our society. I will work and in some twenty-five or thirty years’ time everyone will work. Everyone!

Tuzenbakh, Act One, The Three Sisters, Anton Chekhov